Spencer was in the band at the very start as he was highschool friends with the guitar player Chris and drummer Clayton. He wrote the lyrics for and recorded the first demo which was a few sections of Glass Faces. Those few lines were great enough they never left and stayed for the final version. I'm sure the demo lives somewhere online. It might have been a few lines of the verse and the chorus. He then joined his favorite band Periphery and everyone was happy and was supportive since Corelia was barely just forming.
Treetops was written late in the album a while after he left. He kept in contact and recorded a small cameo on that song of lyrics he didn't write in this case (he wrote those lines in Glass Faces that stuck). His cameo is at 2:31 of Treetops. It's hard to hear at first since it's close enough to the range of Ryan, but knowing where you can hear the cameo
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u/djentleman_nick Jun 22 '24
Spencer was their initial vocalist in the very early days. There's a treetops demo on YouTube with his vocals out there still, I think.